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Patented Nov. 21, 1893.

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COTTON PRESS.

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UNITED STATES` PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM T. BESSONETTE, OE TEMPLE, ASSIGNOR, BY DIRECT AND MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO THE BESSONETTE COTTON COMPRESS MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF WACO, TEXAS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 508,909, dated November 2.1, 1893.

- Application filed March 22, 1893. Serial No. 467,159. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern.-

Be it known ythat I, WILLIAM T. Busso- NETTE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Temple, in the countyof Bell and Stateof l Texas, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Cotton-Presses, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in cotton-presses, the objects in vieW being to lo provide a machine of cheap and simple construction adapted to compress cotton at the initial point of ginning and in a continuous operation with that of ginning, whereby I avoid the expense and labor occasioned by the I5 handling of the cotton during its storage and transportationv to the neighboring compress and also the expense of s'aid'cornpression, and at the same time produce such compression or condensation of the cotton that I am enzo abled to secure the cheap rates of transportation accorded cotton which has been compressed to the standard degree of density.

The invention has particular reference to that class of presses orcompresses in which the cotton is formed in a bat and fed to the press, the latter producing a roll which iscontinuously compressed during the building up or production of the roll. With these and various other. objects in 3o View the invention consists in certain features of construction hereinafter specified and particularly pointed out in the claims.

Referring to the drawingsz-Figure lis a vfront elevation of a machine constructed in accordance withA my invention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation thereof. Fig. 3 is a vertical Alongitudinal section. Fig. 4 is ay transverse vertical section. Fig. 5 is a transverse horizontal section through the sliding-box of the 4o core-roll. Fig. 6 is a similar view through the sliding box of the compressing roll.

Like numerals of reference indicate like parts in all the guies of the drawings.

Upon a suitable base or bed-plate l there is supported a pair of opposite vertical sides or standards 2, which sides or standards are preferably, constructed of castfircn, and at top and .bottom are connected by means of transverse tie-rods 3, the bottoms of said sides or standard's'terminating in suitable securingflanges or feet 4 through which bolts 5 are passed into. the sill or bed-plate. The sides or flanges are provided near their'lower ends with stationary journal-boxes 6,and above the same with vertical slots or openings 7, which extend from points above the boxes to points near the upper ends of the standards. From each of the vertical sides or standards` 1 there extends aV series of horizontally and outwardly disposed bearing-arms or brackets.

8, the same having bearings 9 in their outer ends, each series accommodating avertical shaft 10, each shaft having mounted thereon near its lower end a beveled pinion 11, and having splined thereon above said pinion a second orupper movable pinion l2.

In the journal-box 6 there is journaled the shaft 13, which carries the lower or bed-roll 14. The ends of the shaft 13 project through the boxes 6 and have affixed thereto beveled pinions 15 which engage withl the beveled pinions 11 of the vertical shafts'lO.

In the slots 7 of the standards fianged bearing-boxes 16 are mounted forvertical movement, one of said` bearing-boxes. being provided with a conical bearing-pin 17, 'and the other with a conical bearing-screw 18, which is designed to be operated through the medium of a small hand-crank 19, with which the outer end of said screw is provided.

' 2O designates the core-roll, the same preferably having its surface covered with small spurs or teeth designed to engage the fiber of the cotton, and having a shaft agreeing in width with the distance between the stand` ards l. The shaft 21 of the roller 2O is provided With concaved ends 22, which are `designed to engage the conical bearing-points of the pin 17 and screw 1S.

Above the sliding-boxes 16 there is mounted in the slot 7 of the standards an upper pair of sliding-boxes 23, and in them isv journaled the shaft 24: of the compression-roll 25. The ends of the shaft 24 project beyond the boxes 23, and each end is provided near'its extremity with a beveled-pinion- 26, and in rear of the same With a pulley 27. L-s'haped' brackets 28, having bearing-eyes, t over the ends of the shaft 24 and receive the hubs upon the under sidesof the pinions 12, which pinions 12 engage with the pinions 26 just mentioned, and in the sliding movements of the boxes 23 the pinions 12 follow so that they always engage with said pinions 26.

Upon each of the standards near the rear ends thereof there is located a pair of bearing-ears 29, and in each there is loosely journaled an innergrooved-pulley 30 and an outer grooved pulley 3l. Upon the standards and in front of the bearing-ears 29 a second pair of bearing-ears 32 is located, in which is located an inner pulley 33 and an outer pulley 34. Between these bearing-ears 29 and 32 an opening 35 is formed in the upper end of each standard, and in each opening there is located a vertically movable rod 36, Whose lower end rests upon the bearing-boxes 23, and whose upper ends are provided with bearing-ears 37 in which an inner pulley 38 andan outer pulley 39 is Yjournaled.

To stationary studs 40 extending from the upper ends and outer sides of the standards l depend ropes or cables 41, the free ends of these ropes or cables passing down under and partially around the pulleys 27, thence up and over the outer pulleys 3l and to the rear. Through the medium of this drum it will be Seen that the ropes or cables 41 being Wound thereon will serve to elevate or lower the boxes 23, the compressing-roll 25, and the pinions 2 6 and 12.

Small ropes 43 have one of their ends connected fixedly at 44 to eyes upon the upper ends of the standards 2, thence pass up and over the inner pulleys 38 of the rod, down and under the pulleys 33, up and over the outer pulleys 39 of the rod, thence down and under the inner pulley 30, and off over suitable guide-pulleys 45 where they are provided with pendent weights 47, which as will be obvious, will exert pressure upon the upper ends of the rods 36, and hence upon the bearingbxes of the compressing-shaft 24.

yThe standards are provided vat their rear sides with bearings 48 and 49, in the former of which there is mounted a shaft 50 carrying a guide-roll 51 and a gear 52, the latter engaging a large gear-Wheel 53 which is located upon the shaft 13 of the bed-roll 14. In the bearing-boxes 49 ashaft 54 is mounted, theV same carrying a pulley 54 driven bya belt 56 leading from any suitable motor.

Below the shaft 50 there is .located a condenser 57 of ordinary construction whose flue 5 8 is intended to lead from the discharge-end of a gin of any ordinary construction.

The cotton passing in a soft mass from the gin is, as usual, converted into a soft bat which is fed in a continuous web from the condenser under the guide-roll 51 to the coreroll 20, the speed of the condenser being the same as that of the machine. As the cotton is wound upon the roll it will be seen that it will be compressed into a thin sheet by the condensing-roll 25 and the lower bed-roll 14.

The compression is continuous as the size of the roll increases and as the cotton accumulates upon the core-rolly the journals of the latter as do also those of the condenser-roll move vertically together with their boxes in the slots of the standards 1. When the bale has been completed and it is desired to remove the saine the windingdrum Yis operated so as to elevate the condensing-roll from the core-roll and the bearing-screw 18 being loosened the said core-roll is removed, a new one substituted, the condensing-roll relowered, and the machine again started.

A machine of this character can be constructed at a very slight cost and is within the reach tinancially'of nearly every cotton producer. By such means he is enabled to condense ready for shipment with all the advantages of rates to any desired market, and effect a saving in the handling of the cotton which is occasioned by the necessity which usually exists of storing the same upon the plantation, hauling it to the point of compression, and finally, in the condensing itself, all of which is necessary to reduce the mass or bale to the standard density required by the transportation companies in order to give the shipper the advantageous rates. l

Various changes in the details of my invention will suggest themselves to those skilled in this class of inventions, and though I have herein shown a simple and convenient mechanism for practicing my invention, yet I do not wish to be understood as limiting the same to such precise details, but hold that I may vary them to any extent within the knowledge of the skilled mechanic. f

I-laving described my invention, what I claim is 1. In a cotton-press of the class described,

the combination with the opposite frames, an'

upper and a lower roll journaled therein, the upper roll being movable vertically, of an intermediate core-roll, rods arranged in openings on the frame and having i their lower ends depending upon the bearings of said upper rolls, pulleys located in the upper ends of the pistons, cables connected to the frames and passed over the pulleys, weights connecting the ends of the cables, and means for giving motion to the rolls, substantially as specified.

2. In a cotton-press of theA class described, the combination with the opposite sideframes, the upper and lower rolls journaled therein, vertically movable boxes for the upper roll, vertically movable boxes arranged between the rolls, bearing-pins arranged in said latter boxes, means for adjusting one of the pins, a core-roll having its shaft journaled upon the pins, and means for giving motion to said rolls, of rods arranged in the upper ends of the frames and bearing upon the bearings of the upper roll, pulleys arranged in the upper ends of the rods and in front and in rear thereof, and guide-pulleys arranged adjacent to the press, cables connected to the IOC rgo

machine and having .their free ends passed over the inner pulley of the rod down over one of the pulleys of the frame, again over the outer pulley of the rod, and down under the remaining pulley of the frame, thence over the, guide pulleys, and weights depending from the guide-pulleys, substantially as specified. y

8. .In a cotton-press of the class described,

the combination withthe opposite side-- frames, the upper and lower rolls, movable bearing-boxes for the upper roll, pulleys` arranged on the ends of the shaft of said roll,

and means for giving motion to said rolls, of

an intermediate core-roll, means for securing the same removably in position, pulleys on the upper ends of the frames, cables secured at one of theirends to the frame above the upper roll, passedV under pulleys, upfover the pulley ofthe frame outwardly to a windingdrum, and means for operating said drum,

Vsubstantially as speciiied.

4. In a'cotton-pressthe combination with the Joppositeside-frames, .the upper and lower out of contact with the core-roll, substantially as specified. t

5. In a cotton-press of the class described, the combination with the opposite sides having vertical slots, and below the same, journal-boxes, the shaft 13 arranged in the journal-boxes, the pinionsl thereon,`the movable boxes 16 and 23 arranged in the slots, the coreroll 20 having a shaft 21 located in the boxes 16, the shaft 24 having the roll 25 located in the boxes 23, the beveled pinions 26 arranged on the shaft 24, of the bearing arms 8 projecting from the frame,'the vertical shafts 10 arranged .therein, the pinions l10n the lower ends of the shaft meshing with the pinions 15, the L-shaped brackets 28, ,the pinions 12 splined on the shafts 10 and having their hubs connected with the brackets, meansfo'r raising and lowering the compression-roll out of and into contact withv the core-roll, substantially as specified. y

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses. l

WILLIAM T. BIIssoNIITTE.`

Witnesses:

WM. W. EVANS, JACOB MILLER. 

